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Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation Adoption in a Tropical Small-Scale Food Production System: The Case of Yam Minisetts in Jamaica
Beckford, Clinton L. - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 1, pp. 81-96
Grown in Jamaica since the days of slavery, food yams are major staples in local diets and a significant non-traditional export crop. The cultivation system used today is the same as 300 years ago, with alleged unsustainable practices. A new cultivation system called minisett was introduced in...
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The determinants of innovation adoption
Autant-Bernard, Corinne; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal; … - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010
Using a sample of 46 000 EU firms from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the drivers of innovation adoption. In contrast to most empirical studies on innovation diffusion in which a specific technology is analyzed, this study covers several countries and industries in the...
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The determinants of innovation adoption
Autant-Bernard, Corinne; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal; … - HAL - 2010
Using a sample of 46 000 EU firms from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the drivers of innovation adoption. In contrast to most empirical studies on innovation diffusion in which a specific technology is analyzed, this study covers several countries and industries in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791633
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Farmers' mobilisation of social capital for beneficial uptake of technological innovations in southwest Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Harpham, Trudy - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 147-166
of data obtained from 325 farmers in southwest Nigeria to examine the effectiveness of social capital mobilised by rural …
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Maize Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from Rural Nigeria
Tambo, Justice A. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
of DTM innovation by smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria. The paper is mainly based on a survey of 200 farm households … selected from two agro-ecological zones in north-east Nigeria. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and logistic …
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Healthcare through social computing: a case for public–private collaboration
Valverde, Jose A. - In: International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2009) 3, pp. 343-355
Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...
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Corporate governance mechanisms and firms' financial performance in Nigeria
Sanda, Ahmadu U.; Mikailu, Aminu S.; Garba, Tukur - In: Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting 2 (2010) 1, pp. 22-39
This paper investigates the effects of certain corporate governance mechanisms on the performance of firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Based on a sample of 93 firms for the period 1996 through 1999, our results show an optimal board size of ten, favour concentrated over diffused...
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Complementarities between IT and Organizational Structure: The Role of Corporate Exploration and Exploitation
Mahr, Ferdinand; Kretschmer, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...
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Diversifizierungsstrategien deutscher Unternehmen
Görzig, Bernd; Pohl, Ramona - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 1 (2007) 3, pp. 179-191
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Technological Expectations And The Diffusion Of 'Intermediate' Technologies
Lissoni, Francesco - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 9 (2000) 6, pp. 487-516
The concept of 'technological expectations' has established itself as a key one in the smdy of innovation adoption. The article suggests that it may help explaining not just the adopters' timing decisions, but also their decisions regarding the kind of innovation they adopt. Innova tions that...
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